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I build a mechanical watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears

https://myday24.com/blog/how-a-mechanical-watch-face-is-built/
10•tomasslavicek•3d ago

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Zee2•1h ago
This is covered in Claudeish, had to stop reading. I have to read enough of this at work...

>What sits behind them is a calibre I had to solve the way a real one is solved, and this is why I bother.

>A skeleton is a load-bearing machine with the metal taken away down to the last safe gram, so what is left is whatever carries a force, and no spoke is wider than its job.

>Running and buildable are different questions, and the second is harder.

>A drawn movement is a claim. Before anything gets a surface, I test it as a machine.

If this isn't Claude-prose then the author has been reading too much of it...

(oh, Pangram gives the entire thing 100%)

WillPostForFood•35m ago
Give them some grace. The author is a Czech developer likely using AI to help write in a second language or translating.
Ronsenshi•27m ago
If the whole thing is written by AI, then I wouldn't say that it was just "helping". Author could write it in their native language and then use AI to translate it - the result would be very different.

The movement does look pretty neat. I'm not into watches, but it's impressive that purely rendered thing was designed to be realistic.

xnx•17m ago
Interesting, but title is missing the key word "Garmin".

"How I build a mechanical Garmin watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears"

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https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich
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561•iamflimflam1•7h ago•266 comments

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58•Cider9986•3h ago•26 comments

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https://julialang.org/blog/2026/09/julia-1.13-highlights/
147•eigenspace•3d ago•11 comments

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368•Levitating•10h ago•174 comments

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294•bookofjoe•11h ago•154 comments

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50•walrus01•4h ago•6 comments

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22•NaOH•3d ago•5 comments

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76•david927•7h ago•146 comments

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29•ilamont•4h ago•67 comments

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30•gregsadetsky•1h ago•3 comments

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4•simonpure•46m ago•0 comments

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152•tosh•10h ago•71 comments

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https://bensimms.moe/reverse-engineering-scooter/
368•vinhnx•3d ago•88 comments

I build a mechanical watch face: a real gear train for a watch with no gears

https://myday24.com/blog/how-a-mechanical-watch-face-is-built/
10•tomasslavicek•3d ago•4 comments

I added a non-wi-fi Mitsubishi AC to Home Assistant

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170•ichacas•3d ago•84 comments

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https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260910-00/?p=112689
198•ibobev•12h ago•47 comments

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122•elffjs•2h ago•84 comments

Why is privacy so hard?

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/why-is-privacy-so-hard/
19•andsoitis•3h ago•13 comments

CUDA for AMD on Windows

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135•chiassedu80•10h ago•69 comments

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https://zenodo.org/records/1430991
3•akkartik•1d ago•1 comments

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54•rzk•2d ago•12 comments

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73•binyu•3d ago•17 comments

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35•surprisetalk•3d ago•11 comments

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349•TheJCDenton•9h ago•185 comments

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https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/2099214399840059428
270•mfiguiere•5h ago•113 comments

Base84 deserves a place in file names

https://00f.net/2026/09/09/base84/
58•kevvok•2d ago•50 comments

JetKVM Mini

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525•taubek•17h ago•212 comments

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https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/2098973625252708460
241•kolanos•8h ago•184 comments

Device Drivers lab exercise – COSC562

https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~smarz1/courses/cosc562/drivers.html
29•azhenley•7h ago•2 comments